Bernal Díaz del Castillo
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Bernal Díaz del Castillo was a Spanish conquistador who participated as a soldier in the conquest of the Aztec Empire under Hernán Cortés and late in his life wrote an account of the events. As an exp
A memorial plaque to Bernal Díaz del Castillo in his hometown of Medina del Campo, Spain.
A memorial to Bernal Díaz del Castillo in Medina del Campo, Spain
Pages from the 1632 edition of The True History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo.
The title page of the 1632 edition of the Historia verdadera
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España is a first-person narrative written in 1568 by military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler Bernal Díaz del Castillo.
Bernal Díaz del Castillo
…Cuba, and to Yucatán before joining Cortés. In his later years, Castillo was an encomendero and governor in Guatemala where he wrote his memoirs called The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. He began his account of the conquest almost thirty years after the events and later revised and expanded it in response to Cortés' letters to the king…
The title page of a 1632 edition
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